Sentences with phrase «moving education efforts»

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As much as recent efforts to encourage women in STEM education and STEM jobs have helped move the needle a bit, the culture of science has often made life for women scientists harder than it already is — excluding them from clubby publishing and peer review networks and sometimes outright snubbing their achievements.

Louisville, Ky. — March 24, 2017 — Trucking Moves America Forward (TMAF), the industry - wide image and education movement, today provided an update on its continued efforts to promote a positive image of the trucking industry.

Trucking Moves America Forward (TMAF)-- a cooperative effort by American Trucking Associations (ATA), the Owner - Operator Independent Drivers Association, the Truckload Carriers Association and manufacturers of trucking equipment, was celebrating its second successful year as well as kicking off another ambitious education campaign.

He still applauds the company's continued efforts to move towards more local, sustainable practices and food education.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia on Thursday appointed veteran administrator Jack Bierwirth as a «distinguished educator» for the Hempstead school district, a highly unusual move to bolster efforts to turn around the chronically troubled system.

Ensuring all children receive the fundamental building blocks of an early education has been a top priority of mine and I am thrilled we are moving forward with this joint effort.»

Mulgrew ended on a hopeful note by highlighting the union's efforts to move education in the city forward: the UFT's Community Learning Schools project; the union's fight to secure curriculum aligned to the new Common Core Learning Standards for every teacher; and its efforts to address the lack of lesson plans aligned to the Common Core through its new Share My Lesson website.

While de Blasio noted the increased funding heading toward the renewal schools that are the focus of much Department of Education effort and outside scrutiny, there are other key school - related additions to the budget, including $ 6.6 million for the DOE to «hire 50 additional physical education teachers and conduct a comprehensive needs assessment to address barriers and move schools toward full physical education compliancEducation effort and outside scrutiny, there are other key school - related additions to the budget, including $ 6.6 million for the DOE to «hire 50 additional physical education teachers and conduct a comprehensive needs assessment to address barriers and move schools toward full physical education complianceducation teachers and conduct a comprehensive needs assessment to address barriers and move schools toward full physical education complianceducation compliance.»

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, in a highly unusual move, appointed veteran educator Jack Bierwirth as a «distinguished educator» for the Hempstead school district to bolster efforts to turn around the chronically troubled system.

Sept. 14: State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia appoints veteran administrator Jack Bierwirth as a «distinguished educator» for the Hempstead district in a highly unusual move to bolster efforts to turn around the system.

Higher education policy moved back into the news last week when the State University of New York's Chancellor announced an effort to keep increasing the cost of public college tuition.

Further moves to privatise post-16 education will undermine efforts to build strong further and higher education foundations in Britain, a union chief will warn today.

At the 3 - hour - long Senate hearing — which, in an unusual move, was jointly held by an appropriations subcommittee and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions — topics ranged from financing the effort to the need for a greater sense of urgency, public health and scientific issues, and personal experiences.

These leaders should focus their efforts on moving to a competency - based education that requires students to demonstrate mastery of the material, ending the archaic practice of seat - time, funding education based on achievement instead of attendance, eliminating the all too common practice of restricting students to district boundaries, and removing barriers to effective, high quality instruction.

In his final chapter, Putnam recommends a variety of well - known school - based reforms, such as moving poor children into better schools, compensatory financing for schools in poor neighborhoods to enable them to attract the best teachers and counselors, more school - based extracurricular activities and social services, and more effort to engage the whole community in the education process.

Minnesota legislators were expected to reach agreement late last week on an education bill that would support the state's efforts to move to an outcomes - based education system.

What would be great to see is Microsoft move away from just focusing on the content creation marketplace of its traditional Office suite and instead leverage its acquisition of LinkedIn and Lynda.com to do three things: support competency - based learning — through badges, portfolios, and rich profiles for all students; invest in building students» social capital — a key determinant of life success that education typically ignores — in a deliberate way; and, through both of these efforts, help students discover and cultivate their true passions.

Charging that America is «moving backward» in its efforts to ensure full participation by minority citizens in the nation's life and prosperity, a panel of leaders from education, business, and government last week urged all segments of the society to work toward boosting opportunities for minorities.

But state systems of education consist of interconnected policies and work streams, and if related elements don't move forward in tandem, the efforts often fail to have impact.

First, as Catherine Gewertz noted last week, Achieve's Mike Cohen (a key player in the Common Core effort and someone for whom I have immense respect) has pooh - poohed concerns that the consortia are moving into curricular development (with federal funds) in violation of the statutory prohibition on the U.S. Department of Education developing curricula.

«The current regional systems, which have served their purposes, now, in fact, could impede the state's efforts to move quickly to a world - class education system,» Mr. Leininger concluded after reviewing the effectiveness of the regional systems at the request of state legislators.

These leaders should focus their efforts on moving to a competency - based education that requires students to demonstrate mastery of the material, ending the archaic practice of seat - time, funding education based on achievement instead of attendance, eliminating the all - too - common practice of restricting students to district boundaries, and removing barriers to effective, high - quality instruction.

In an effort to provide ongoing feedback to teachers during the course of the school year, measure annual student growth, and move beyond narrowly - focused bubble tests, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded two groups of states grants to develop a new generation of tests.

Mr. Goodling praised the House GOP and the panel he chairs for emphasizing efforts to improve the quality of federal education programs and for beginning a drive to move more decisionmaking to the local level.

«America is moving backward, not forward, in its efforts to achieve the full participation of minority citizens in the life and prosperity of the nation,» said Frank H. T. Rhodes, president of Cornell University and chairman of the Com4mission on Minority Participation in Education and American Life.

Council of State Governments Justice Center released a school discipline publication that documents how five states — CA, CT, IL, NC, and TN — reduced their reliance on suspensions and encourages policymakers and education leaders everywhere to take the critical steps needed to move toward a more comprehensive vision of school discipline reform — one that ensures efforts to limit disciplinary removals also foster supportive learning environments that keep all students engaged in school and improve student outcomes.

that documents how five states — CA, CT, IL, NC, and TN — reduced their reliance on suspensions and encourages policymakers and education leaders everywhere to take the critical steps needed to move toward a more comprehensive vision of school discipline reform — one that ensures efforts to limit disciplinary removals also foster supportive learning environments that keep all students engaged in school and improve student outcomes.

As part of that effort, State chiefs are committed to supporting English learners, those students who are not yet proficient in English, in receiving a strong education while they move toward English proficiency.

A new report from the Wallace Foundation and the Teachers College at Columbia University, Collective Impact and the New Generation of Cross-Sector Collaborations for Education: A Nationwide Scan, identifies and describes the many education - focused collaborations happening in the U.S. right now, explores the role of the collective impact model in collaborative efforts, and outlines trends to watch movingEducation: A Nationwide Scan, identifies and describes the many education - focused collaborations happening in the U.S. right now, explores the role of the collective impact model in collaborative efforts, and outlines trends to watch movingeducation - focused collaborations happening in the U.S. right now, explores the role of the collective impact model in collaborative efforts, and outlines trends to watch moving forward.

Below, you'll hear what teachers, students, and education leaders have to say about our efforts to move public education forward.

This webinar focused on the importance of student - centered, asset - based and culturally responsive teaching in the effort to move beyond compliance measures towards equitable education for all learners.

Thanks to the efforts of the Committee and dedicated citizens, Kentucky has moved from the bottom of the national rankings in education to the middle and above.

A + Colorado is concerned that the Colorado Department of Education will not use the flexibility of ESSA to strengthen current efforts to improve our lowest performing schools and instead will move towards a more hands - off approach to these schools and districts.

She then presents a dilemma facing education systems now with the move to standardised practices: «Standards for teachers and students have the potential to deny educators the opportunities they need to develop their personal pedagogies which are the product of ongoing efforts to marry content and strategies together in a manner that is personally meaningful for both teacher and students.»

An even greater possibility for reform lies in the move by the Obama administration to allow American Indian and Alaska Native tribes, which have long complained about being left out of these efforts, to participate in Race to the Top so long as they operate schools under the purview of the federal Bureau of Indian Education or through their tribal education department in partnership with dEducation or through their tribal education department in partnership with deducation department in partnership with districts.

So no one should be surprised that the AFT's Big Apple local, the United Federation of Teachers, has allegedly been caught engaging in such activity as part of its effort against moves by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his school reform allies to expand school choice and transform the Empire State's public education systems.

Many successful education systems couple the focus on universal standards and outcomes with efforts to move responsibility to the front line, encouraging responsiveness to local needs and strengthening accountability systems.

Meanwhile in Pennsylvania, the AFT has worked with its Keystone State affiliate to challenge school reform efforts as well as take on moves by Gov. Tom Corbett to reduce education spending.

Delaware (where my daughter just moved) is right, Secretary DeVos should review this guidance letter, and until the federal government gets its act together on secondary education (which it appears may never happen), families should opt out of state schools subject to federal dictates, opting in, instead, to learning institutions that embed preparation for exams at a pre-university level that can lead to placement advanced in future course sequences: these advanced level subjects should be embedded within the balanced curriculum that an international baccalaureate education represents, in contrast to the narrow extension of elementary school that DC bureaucrats remain focused on, as if time had not run out on the Obama administration and its failed efforts to improve the lives of American youth, now mired in debt that it encouraged in pursuit of a «North Star» goal that led the United States astray.

We must not in any way weaken our efforts to move forward to create a level education playing field for all children.

When it comes to Governor Malloy, Commissioner Pryor and the corporate education reform industry, the Bronx charter school's effort to move into Stamford is probably the most absurd, inappropriate, insulting, and anti-local control privatization scheme that we've seen so far in Connecticut.

Due to the efforts of WEAC members, a proposal to seriously threaten teacher rights won't move forward, the state education agency announced Thursday.

We are excited to move forward in conjunction with the new LAUSD SELPA reorganization efforts to implement the flexibility and autonomy of our charter that has been so successful in providing an education and a voice to our community.

OUSD's current efforts to reduce suspension disproportionality and to move away from punitive discipline practices altogether stem, in part, from the results of a U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights investigation described in this article.

Combine these realities with moves such as the AFT's failed lawsuit against New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's school reform efforts and revelations such as those last week by Dropout Nation, and suddenly, the pitch from teachers» unions is as failed as their vision for American public education.

Moving forward, she called for more listening by all to people on the ground in an effort to «reclaim public education.»

In an effort to improve lagging test scores and move kids more quickly into mainstream classes, Adamowski took a different approach, ending bilingual education and moving to English - only.

Lundgren recalled her move this way: «I wanted to be a leader who can unify the efforts and goals of teachers and families so every child can obtain that excellent education.»

Its application featured comic overstatements — New York has been recognized for its «ability to move poor performing teachers from the classroom,» for example — and far more significant omissions and misstatements, all of which were the product of King's game effort to finesse the grip the unions have on public education in New York.

«This move is a significant step in our ongoing efforts to both rationalize and better equip the NOOK business to achieve success, while positioning the digital education team and platform for future growth,» said Michael P. Huseby, Chief Executive Officer of Barnes & Noble, Inc. «These relocations result in work environments and related cost structure impacts that are better aligned with our business objectives and our employees» expressed needs.»